Who Put the Hole in the Donut?
中英文文稿：
Mm, donuts.�
唔，甜甜圈。
The guiltiest of guilty pleasures.
让人最有罪恶感的美食。
But where did the donut get its shape, and more specifically, who put the hole in the donut?
但你有想过，为什么它会是这个形状，更准确地说，是谁在甜甜圈的中间穿了一个洞？
Two competing theories set the stage for what would become known as the Great Donut Debate.
有两种说法在争论，就是知名的甜甜圈辩论。
If you think of the quintessential American sweet snack, it is in fact the donut.
如果要你说出一个美式经典甜点，那肯定是甜甜圈。
That's Michel Krondl.
这位是Michel Krondl。
He wrote this book.
他写了这本书。
The Donut, History, Recipes, and Lore from Boston to Berlin.
《甜甜圈：从波士顿到柏林的历史、食谱与知识》
Suffice to say Krondl is what you call a donut expert.
Krondl可以说是一位甜甜圈专家。
When you have something so central to a culture as the donut is to American culture, you wanna tell stories around it.
如果有任何东西像甜甜圈在美国文化中一样重要的话，你一定会想要好好介绍它。
We here at Great Big Story are no exception.�
于是我们Great Big Story频道也不例外。
First part of our story takes us to 1916, where a Boston Post reporter interviewed Hanson Crockett Gregory.
首先让我们回到1916年一位波士顿邮报的记者访问了Hanson Crockett Gregory。
Gregory gives this long interview, where he explains how he invented it, which was that he was on board ship when he was around 15 years old, when he had the clever idea of poking out the middle so that the whole thing would cook evenly.
Gregory在那次访问中，说明了他发明甜甜圈的过程，当时15岁的他在一艘船上，想到在面团中央戳出一个洞好让甜甜圈受热均匀。
This, he claims, made him the Columbus of the donut hole.
他声称，此举让他成为甜甜圈的创始人。
Gregory's story spread like wildfire.
Gregory的故事像野火般蔓延。�
The story was picked up by newspapers all over the country.
全世界的报章杂志都在报导他的故事。
This made him a star.
让他成为焦点。
It was little unclear why they believed the story of an 85-year-old sailor, given the reputations sailors have.
没人知道为何大家会相信一位85岁老水手的话，让他如此声名大噪。
Skepticism aside, donuts grew more and more popular over the years, due in large part to a donut dunking fad.
撇除这些质疑，甜甜圈这些年来变得越来越受欢迎，尤其一部分是因为有段时间流行的"浸泡甜甜圈风潮"。
Donut dunking becomes a national obsession.
泡甜甜圈成为了国民风潮。
In 1941, the National Dunking Association, yes, a real thing, hosted the Great Donut Debate, where the question was "Who put the hole in the donut"?
1941年，国家浸泡协会，没错，它是真的，举办了甜甜圈辩论，以"是谁在甜甜圈中间穿洞？ "为主题。
And one side of the debate was the proposal that Captain Gregory had in fact invented the donut hole as he had explained, which is as a use on the ship.
一方的说法是支持Gregory船长年轻时在船上发明了甜甜圈的洞，如他先前所言。
And on the other side, Chief High Eagle of Wampanoag Tribe. Chief High Eagle had a completely different story.
辩论的另一方，则是来自Wampanoag部落的High Eagle酋长。High Eagle酋长说了一个截然不同的故事。
Many generations ago, a member of his tribe was pursuing a settler.
在很久以前，部落的一位成员正在追杀一位拓荒者。
And this settler apparently had a donut in her hand, and this young Indian brave shot an arrow, which created a hole right in the middle of the donut.
而这位拓荒者她的手.上正拿着一.个甜甜圈，这位年轻的印地安人射出一箭，这箭正中甜甜圈的中心，射出一个洞。
In the end, the celebrity panel awarded Gregory with the innovation.
最后，名人组成的评审团判定Gregory 是甜甜圈的创始人。
And though nobody can never prove that Hanson Crockett Gregory put the first hole in the donut, the tale lives on.
虽然我们永远无法证明Hanson Crockett Gregory是第一位在甜甜圈.上穿洞的人，这故事仍然会永远流传。
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